Customer is using a virtual machine and they want to know if they can have the laserfiche temp files stored elsewhere the drives on the virtual machines are filling up
Are you asking about the TEMP directory used by the Laserfiche Server? That is always <repositorypath>\TEMP
No I am talking about the client computer
They're stored in the user's temp folder as defined by the environment variables (Windows default is C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\temp).
What version of Laserfiche are we talking about and can you give us a sample file name and path? None of the Laserfiche software should be making a lot of temp files.
So is there a way to alter the default? We have virtual servers and the OS drive (C:) is relatively small considering the size of our repositories. A full index always overwhelms the drive with temp file. Is this a registry setting or in an entry in an INI file?
It looks like Microsoft no longer supports moving the user profiles off the system drive: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/949977
What exactly do you mean by "A full index always overwhelms the drive with temp file"?
When running a full text index of the platform generates a large number of temp files, to the point that the C: drive becomes full and the system (the entire server) stalls and crashes.
The original poster was talking about the temp directory on the client machine (i.e. where the Laserfiche desktop client is running), but it sounds like you are talking about the machine running the full text search engine (LFFTS).
The desktop client stores all of its temp files in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\temp, LFFTS and LFS store their temp files under the repository folder.
Where are the temp files that you are referring to?
As for LFFTS, you can modify its temp folder by a registry value, `HKLM\SOFTWARE\LASERFICHE\LFFTS\Config\TempPath`. By default, LFFTS uses the user temp folder, which depends on which account LFFTS is running as. If you want to use a different folder, set the registry value to the full path of the required folder, and make sure the LFFTS account has read / write access to that folder, and then restart LFFTS service (lfftsrv).